A noble cause does not need to relentlessly smear its critics. — David O. Sacks
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. — Thomas Paine
To generous souls every task is noble. — Euripides
The noblest search is the search for excellence. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency. — Paul Samuelson
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. — Michelle Obama
A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end. — Grover Cleveland
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? — Winston Churchill
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. — Albert Camus
Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause. — Ronald Reagan
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. — Blaise Pascal
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. — Oscar Wilde
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life. — Lucy Stone
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. — Kahlil Gibran
Short Noble Causes Quotes
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch
The army is the true nobility of our country. — Napoleon
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. — Joshua Chamberlain
Noble fathers have noble children. — Euripides
Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country. — George Washington
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. — Sophocles
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin
Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues — Agesilaus II
To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Albert Schweitzer
Noble Causes Image Quotes
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Noble Cause Quotes
The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people. — Emiliano Zapata
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them. — Woodrow Wilson
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life. — Jack H. Goaslind
Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before — Joshua Chamberlain
...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that. — Ray Anderson
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. — Edmund Burke
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. — George Weah
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes. — Winston Churchill
Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it. — Steve Jobs
What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war? — Cindy Sheehan
Worthy Causes Quotes
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong. — Walter E. Williams
Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours. — John D. Rockefeller
It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters. — Carole King
Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress.
My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help. — Ellen G. White
O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly things has caused mortals to forget the the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end. — Guru Angad
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. — Georges Rouault
Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. — Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes. — Norman Vincent Peale
I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away from you. You can have money, you can have fame, but in the end, it can be taken from you. But education will always be there to help you. — Shamcey Supsup
Noble Deeds Quotes
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. — Aristotle
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions. — Aeschines
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. — Dodie Smith
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery. — Horace Greeley
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds. — Alexandre Dumas
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds. — Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. — Aristotle
Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. — George William Curtis
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? — Lao Tzu
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it — Albert Einstein
There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is
to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both
sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a
matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best
generals and the better army! — Charles Bukowski
We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause. — Ronald Reagan
I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy. — Oscar Hijuelos
Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions. — George Washington
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path. — Buddha
Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind! — George Washington
When an individual from underprivileged background gets higher education, he/she uplifts the entire family. 90% of students at Namal college are from underprivileged backgrounds. I look forward for your support in this noble cause — Imran Khan
Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes. — Christina Hoff Sommers
The most noble
cause known to man
is the liberation
of the human mind
and spirit. — Maya Angelou
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs. — Francois Guizot
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions. — William O. Douglas
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community. — Joe Biden
Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes. — Tony Blair
It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble. — Henry A. Kissinger
As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person - so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters. — Thomas Szasz
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. — Benjamin Disraeli
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them. — Barbara Mertz
It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause. — Ronald Reagan
Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important. — Mike Gayle
The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes. — Jean De La Bruyere
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you. — Michel de Montaigne
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs. — Madame Guizot
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure. — Anthony Bourdain
The American people have on many occasions been willing to shed their own blood for a noble cause, like when hundreds of thousands of Americans participated in the fight against fascism in Europe, and other causes. There are many good people there, and the Cuban people know the American people, we have many examples of solidarity from the American people in every stage of the Cuban people's fight for independence. — Alejandro Castro Espin
There are so many causes. Gun control, climate change, deforestation, animal welfare, human welfare, education. Working on the big issues is noble and great, but being aware of what’s going on around you right at this moment, being kind to the people around you, extending compassion and decency, not just to everyone you meet but also to yourself—I think that’s one of the biggest challenges most people face. — Moby
The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself. — John Wooden
Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes. — Wilferd Peterson
Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise. — Wayne Muller
The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong. — Alex Gibney
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. — Aristotle
I want our enemies to understand that don't think that their violent acts are going to cause this president to leave before the job is done. And I want our troops to understand we respect them and that the sacrifices they make are noble and necessary for peace. — George W. Bush
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